Neavil’s Mill

The Eighteenth Century Mill was operated by George Neavil. It was still in use in 1932, and was restored in 1962 by the Antiquarian Society as a memorial to the early settlers of Fauquier County.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Ellicott’s Mill

John Ballendine established this gristmill at the Occoquan Falls ca. 1755. By 1800 it was owned by Nathaniel Ellicott and housed machinery to unload grain from wagons or barges, grind it, and return it to its carrier. The building, the ...

Mill Street

Mill Street has been Occoquan's commercial center since the early 1800s. The Alton Hotel, Taverns, a bank, a pharmacy, grocery and hardware stores, and other businesses served local residents and travelers on the main east coast north south highway. A ...

Snow's Grist Mill

In 1810 Snow's grist mill

was built near here.

Unfailing water supply brought

people from great distances

to Cold Creek mills.

Snow's family was massacred

by Indians in 1813

Marker is at the intersection of South Washington Street (Ohio Route 101) and Reed Court, on the right ...

White's Mill

In 1780 John White ran a grist mill on Raccoon Creek. Water power ran the mill until a 1912 flood destroyed the dam then steam power until 1920. White's Mill decided the boundary of Beaver County in 1800 to become ...

Mount Hecla Mill

First steam-powered cotton mill in N.C. Operated ca. 1934-80 in large brick building that stood 2 blocks N.

Marker is at the intersection of North Greene Street and West Friendly Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Greene Street. ...

Miller's Tavern

Built by John Henderson prior to 1798 in Federal style, the building was leased by William Miller and operated as a tavern for 50 years. Since 1974 building has housed the Brooke County Museum.

Marker is at the intersection of 6th ...

Gilreath's Mill

State of South Carolina

Department of Archives and History

Gilreath's Mill

has been entered on

The National Register of Historic Places

by the

United States Department of the Interior under provisions of the National

Historic Preservation Act of 1966

Marker is on Gilreath Mill Road (South Carolina Route ...

Gays Mills Apple Orchards

Farmers in this area learned early that the land on both sides of the Kickapoo River offered excellent conditions for apple-growing. In 1905 John Hays and Ben Twining collected apples from eight or ten farmers around Gays Mills for exhibit ...

Fisher - Miller - Grant

Stretches between Llano and Colorado Rivers westward almost to the Pecors. An 1842 grant of 3,800,000 acres from the Texas Republic, purchased in 1844 by the German Emigration Society. Commissioner General John O. Meusebach founded Fredericksburg in 1846 as way-station ...